News Thrash Brings a Hurricane Full of Sharks to a Small Town The new disaster movie stars Phoebe Dynevor, Whitney Peak, and Djimon Hounsou. By John DiLillo April 10, 2026 Link copied to clipboard Share If the storm doesn’t kill you, the sharks will. In Thrash, the new film from writer and director Tommy Wirkola ( Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Silent Night ), a hurricane is only the beginning for a South Carolina coastal town. Soon a shiver of bull sharks is swimming down Main Street, and some desperate townspeople find themselves trapped in an aquatic nightmare. When Wirkola pitched Thrash to Adam McKay and his Hyperobject Industries production company, the film’s reality felt much more far-fetched. “What changed was that [global] warming accelerated,” McKay tells Tudum. “What seemed like a heightened premise when Tommy pitched it to us has now become much more of a reality. Down in Australia, they had torrential, historic, climate-fueled floods. Bull sharks love dirty water to hunt. So they had four shark attacks in a 48-hour period .” In other words: This new film may be fiction, but it’s anything but fantasy. Read on to learn more about Thrash , now streaming on Netflix. What is Thrash about? When a catastrophic hurricane slams a coastal town, stranded residents must survive rapidly rising waters swarming with ravenous sharks. McKay and his fellow producer Kevin Messick have known Wirkola since his very first film, Dead Snow , premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. “Tommy loves fun, over-the-top, rock-’em, sock-’em movies,” McKay says. “There was a lot of that crafty filmmaking that went into this that Tommy was perfect for. He’s cool, he’s got an anarchic, heavy metal kind of edge to him, and he’s funny. It’s the kind of filmmaking we love at Hyperobject.” Who’s in the cast of Thrash ? The cast of Thrash includes: Phoebe Dynevor ( Bridgerton , Fair Play ) as Lisa Fields, a pregnant woman trapped in her car as the storm hits Whitney Peak ( Gossip Girl, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina ) as Dakota Edwards, an agoraphobic young woman who doesn’t leave town in time to avoid the storm Djimon Hounsou ( Gladiator, Blood Diamond ) as Dale Edwards, Dakota’s marine researcher uncle who’s trying to make his way back to her Matt Nable ( Riddick, Arrow ) as Billy Olson, the foster father of three siblings trapped in a flooding home as sharks close in Andrew Lees ( Unfriended: Dark Web, Mortal Engines ) as Joe Sprinkle, a news anchor covering the storm Alyla Browne ( Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 ) as Dee, one of Matt’s foster children Stacy Clausen ( True Spirit , Crazy Fun Park ) as Ron, one of Matt’s foster children Dante Ubaldi as Will, one of Matt’s foster children Sami Afuni ( Miles from Nowhere, Spit ) as Doug the Camera Guy Chai Hansen ( Play Dirty, Night Sky ) as Brian, Dale’s colleague When will Thrash be on Netflix? Thrash has officially swum onto Netflix. Get your life preservers ready and stream it now.

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